A treatise on headache and neuralgia : including spinal irritation and a disquisition on normal and morbid sleep / by J. Leonard Corning ; with an appendix Eye strain: a cause of headache, by David Webster.

  • Corning, J. Leonard (James Leonard), 1855-1923.
Date:
1894
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Credit: A treatise on headache and neuralgia : including spinal irritation and a disquisition on normal and morbid sleep / by J. Leonard Corning ; with an appendix Eye strain: a cause of headache, by David Webster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    (9) Plantar Neuralgia. (10) Coccygodynia. (11) Mastodynia. (12) Muscular Neuralgia. page XIII. Causation 79 XIV. Diagnosis 83 XV. Pathology 84 XVI. Prognosis 86 XVII. Treatment in General 88 XVIII. Local Medication of Nerves, Authors Method 93 XIX. Local Medication of Nerves continued. The Prolong-a- tion of the Local Action of the Remedy, Autliors Method; Cases Illustrative of various Phases of Neuralgia ; The Endermic Use of Remedies in Neu- ralgia 97 PART III.—HISTORICAL. Consideration of Methods op Treatment heretofore proposed. XX. Methods Involving the Use of Electricity 119 XXI. Electric Methods continued. Simultaneous Applica- tion of Pressure and Galvanism 121 XXII. Narcotics and Sedatives 125 XXIII. Other Remedies which have been Recommended; Treatment by Freezing 133 XXIV. Surgical Expedients 138 XXV. Some Concluding Observations on Rheumatic, Osteal and Periosteal Head-Pains 140 PART IV.—IRRITATIVE CONDITIONS OF THE SPINE. XXVI. Spinal Irritation 145 XXVIL Spinal Irritation and other Painful Symptoms conse- quent upon Slight Local Injury or General Shock.. 169 PART v.—NORMAL AND MORBID SLEEP. XXVIII. Considerations on the Physiology of Sleep 187 XXIX. Idiopatliic Insomnia 201 XXX. Secondary Insomnia 206 XXXI. Considerations on Dreams 209 XXXII. The Difference between Dreams and Waking Thought. 215 XXXm. Morbid Somnolence 219 XXXIV. General Observations on the Treatment of Insomnia 223 XXXV. Localization of the Action of Remedies upon the Brain. . 228 Appendix : Eye Strain, a Cause of Headache 245 Index 273